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a neat trick thats really got to be done first hand to be fully appreciated. basically, you microwave any foil-backed wrapper for a few seconds, and it will shrink.

o rly? thats not very nice of you to say such things! but seriously, its pretty harmless. there was an episode of mythbusters on discovery channel that debonked the whole "your microwave will explode if you put metal in it!" urband legend.

Excellent find sir. If I may suggest, place a small glass of water in the microwave along with the snack bag to prevent damage to the microwave oven. CDs are even more amazing and make neat fractal patterns.

i haven't tried it on a full bag.. i've tried it on one of those "grab bags," the medium-size lays. it still works, but of course, it requires more time to shrink to smallest size. i can't fit a large bag into my microwave...

yup! its supposed to spark and pop.. i cant explain to you exactly whats going on, but something with the foil making it really hot and then it shrinks. it does produce an odor that may, in fact, be a health hazard... but i'm fine, and i've been doing it for months now!

but if you're serious about doing it the right way, try it out a couple times to find the best time for your microwave; and best size/time ratio to make it as small as possible before melting into goo.

if you throw it in a fire, i doubt you'll get it out looking as nice as you can via microwave. also, it only takes a few seconds this way - how long does it take for you oven people to shrink stuff? :)

"...magnetron's life being shortened if you pull crap like this. No
explosions--just excessive wear from misuse..."
yeah that's what I've heard too. I did that once with a little container of butter (foil backed) just after I woke up to get breakfast (so I wasnt really thinking). I wouldn't do that too much unless you don't mind junking up stuff with broken microwaves.

Now stick your head inside the microwave and inhale deeply. Do this with a few bags until you've killed enough braincells that you can't breathe anymore. And you're done. This is cool, but not really ytmnd-worthy. More like a flash animation, or maybe a forum post. Inkdrinker would have three words to say to you.

That's not wise since if you overcook it and melt the bag, it will probably smell quite bad and possibly be toxic. Your roomates if any will kill you and besides, this just isn't a smart thing to do...

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"So, son, what have you learned in that university I've spent well over a hundred grand to get you into?" "Well, Dad, I just learned how to shrink a bag of potato chips in the microwave! It's awesome!"

This looked kinda cool, so I tried it out yesterday before I went to work. Turns out our microwave was too old to do this correctly. Instead it began to spark way too much and before I could open it to stop it from catching on fire, it burst into flames. It quickly spread to the table cloth and before I could put the fire out with my sink, it caught the curtains on fire. Then my cat caught on fire. NEDM

i new what this was gonna be when i saw bagshrink :P my old babysitter when I was a kid used to tell me and bro about these things all the time (much to the dismay of my parents) but she told us if you put it in for too long it would explode or burst into flame or something, cause some people were doing it at school and someone tryed doing it for a really long time (like maybe 10 seconds more) and there was a small fire :P haha it also reminds me of when my friend put a sponge in the school microwave in 8th

o rly? thats not very nice of you to say such things! but seriously, its
pretty harmless. there was an episode of mythbusters on discovery channel
that debonked the whole "your microwave will explode if you put metal in
it!" urband legend.
BULLsh*t, THEY DIDNT PUT ENOUGH METAL IN IT!!!

I was trying to think up a witty line about how you must be retarded if it took you until college to realize this, but then realizing nobody else did, and that I was incapable of conceiving said witty line, I retracted and gave a five. ......You're welcome???

Um, yeah, that smell is from the plastic on the outside melting. You've totally contaminated your microwave. You may be fine now, but you've increased your chances of getting cancer in years to come. The arcing does look pretty cool, though.